Title: Automatic twitter plugin- using youruls but changed to php code
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Automatic twitter plugin- using youruls but changed to php code

 *  [Copywrite](https://wordpress.org/support/users/copywrite2012/)
 * (@copywrite2012)
 * [15 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/automatic-twitter-plugin-using-youruls-but-changed-to-php-code/)
 * Hi all
    I have been using the yoururls twitter plugin but it doesn’t seem to 
   be working so I changed to using this code but it also doesn’t seem to do the
   job. What is a good plugin or why doesn;t this code work? Thanks:
 *     ```
       function twitterUpdate($postTitle, $postLink, $isNew)
       {
       	// Enter Your Twitter ID Here
       	$username = 'xxxxxxx';
       	// Enter Your Twitter Password Here
       	$password = 'xxxxxxx';
   
               # text into a twitter friendly text
       	$code_entities_match = array('--','"','!','@','#','$','%','^','&','*','(',')','_','+','{','}','|',':','"','<','>','?','[',']','\\',';',"'",',','.','/','*','+','~','
       ```
   
 * ‘,’=’);
    $code_entities_replace = array(‘-‘,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”,”);
   $postTitle = str_replace($code_entities_match, $code_entities_replace, $postTitle);
 *  // Check if New or Updated Post
    if($isNew) $postTitle = ‘New Post: ‘ . $postTitle;
   else $postTitle = ‘Updated Post: ‘ . $postTitle;
 *  // Calculate Twitter Msg and keep it under 140 Chars
    if(strlen ($postTitle)
   > (140 – strlen ($postLink))) $postTitle = substr_replace($postTitle, ‘…’, (140–
   3 – strlen ($postLink)));
 *  $message = $postTitle . $postLink;
 *  // The twitter API address
    $url = ‘[http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml&#8217](http://twitter.com/statuses/update.xml&#8217);;
   $curl_handle = curl_init(); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_URL, “$url”); curl_setopt(
   $curl_handle, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 2); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER,
   1); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POST, 1); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS,“
   status=$message”); curl_setopt($curl_handle, CURLOPT_USERPWD, “$username:$password”);
   $buffer = curl_exec($curl_handle); curl_close($curl_handle);
 *  // Uncomment the lines below to check if
    // CURL is enabled on your Web Server//
   check for success or failure
 * /* if (empty($buffer))
    echo ‘message’; else echo ‘success’; */ }`

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